About Luke Hickman
From a young age, Luke has been obsessed with film. He studied film at Utah Valley University from 2005-08 and he reviewed movies for the weekly student publication "The College Times"/"UVU Review." Luke critiques films for "The Stubbs Show" on 101.5FM KEGA and on The Reel Place, a website that he co-created with fellow High-Def Digest writer Aaron Peck.
The odd thing about this weekend’s releases is that the movie with the thinnest plot is almost certainly going to be the most entertaining of the bunch. Let’s be honest, watching Liam Neeson fist-fight a pack of wolves...
I’ve wanted to give Summit Entertainment the benefit of the doubt, but the studio can’t seem to release worthy genre films. ‘Source Code‘ and ‘50/50‘ seem to be flukes in an otherwise crappy tra...
Within mainstream cinema, Mark Webber is probably best known for his role as Stephen Stills in ‘Scott Pilgrim vs. the World‘. For those of you with your fingers one the pulse of indie cinema, you might know him from hi...
Many cynics complain that Sundance’s selection process has become more about celebrities than about introducing new artists. If that’s truly the case, there’s an upside to it. Known faces appear in films outside ...
While the Sundance Film Festival is held mostly in Park City, a large number of screenings are also held in Salt Lake City and three other Northern Utah locations. To celebrate the festival’s opening in Salt Lake City, an op...
Each January, I typically spend a week on the mountain cramming in as many movies as possible at the Sundance Film Festival. After four five-movie days, I usually teeter out and screen a movie or two a day for the remainder of the...
I don’t know if it’s the fact that the Sundance Film Festival is underway locally or if it’s just because January movies are typically bad, but most movies that open during the two weekends of Sundance aren’...
I understand what ‘Red Tails’ tries to accomplish. The film wants to inform the world about the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen. Unfortunately, it sure doesn’t do that very well. Instead, it’s melodramati...
Some online sites that follow weekly box office totals are announcing the three-day actual weekend estimates, while others count this Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a four-day weekend, and give four-day estimates that include Monday&...
I typically hate it when a movie’s trailer or poster boasts adjectives like “daring,” “gripping,” “haunting,” and so forth. Words like those seem like they’re spewed out by critics j...
For the last two months, the trailer for ‘Joyful Noise’ has been playing before what seems like every screening I’ve been to. I’ve been dreading the prospect of actually watching ‘Joyful Noise’ ...
Have you ever seen a movie with a simple plot that becomes unnecessarily complicated just to add drama? That’s what you’re getting with ‘Contraband’. There’s one task that our central characters could...